Monthly Archives: March 2013

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America’s Cup: Wings, foils, drag

March 8th, 2013

FOIL FOCUSED Behind the scenes at Oracle Team USA, Joseph Ozanne crunches numbers using mind-numbing equations all in the name of a faster time around the racecourse for his team’s AC72. Ozanne is the team’s wing design leader and is also responsible for the performance prediction functions. Much of his work in the current campaign


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OCEAN RACING: Back in the day

March 8th, 2013

“IT WAS MAGIC. I DON’T KNOW WHY” By Kimball Livingston, Blue Planet Times – Once upon a time ocean racing was going gangbusters. Every new boat seemed important, and the new boats kept on coming. In the 1970s, the racing yacht Imp was born in a sketch on a napkin at the bar at The


Get ready for Opening Day

March 7th, 2013

Yacht Clubs will soon begin their time honored celebration known as “Opening Day” to mark the official beginning of the



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